Forum posts made by seeker4

How to end a story? No fucking idea, else I'd have a new one up. Coffee, please. Large Double Double (which in Canada means a large coffee with two cream and two sugar at Tim Horton's but in Rump's it means hold the cream and sugar and give me four times the BBB).

Irish coffee, mate. Made with Bertha's finest, of course. Had a vision for a new writing project but it shall be over on the blue site if it comes to pass, though I might slip some side stories on to Lush. It's good old space opera s-f, kind of Battlestar Galactica meets Firefly with a bit of Star Wars on the side. That is as much as I shall say until I see if things start to happening. First, a (hopefully) final pass on my latest erotic opus and to see if maybe it is ready to slip into the queue.

Now I just need time to actually write whole books. Considering how long it is taking me just to get an 8800-ish word short story out, the heat death of the universe would probably come before my first whole book.

We now have legal medically assisted suicide in Canada. Requires that the patient be able to consent (ie. if you're so far gone that your Power of Attorney is in charge, it can't happen), have the approval of two doctors, and a condition that is clearly terminal and causing unbearable suffering. Some other conditions, too, IIRC.

I support the legislation in principle but it probably needs some tweaking.

As for passive measures like turning off life support and not taking heroic measures to preserve life, we've had that for a long time and DNR orders are common in hospital and longterm care.

Beer me, buddy. So close to submitting my latest opus, I can almost taste it, but I think I'll let it lie fallow for a day or two and then give it another pass. That usually results in finding some obvious f-ups. And once or twice has resulted in deleted stories (basically, re-read the story and go "What the f were you thinking, man?" )

And I'm drawing close (just editing and proofing now) on a new story about Julia, the bride who awakened. Basically, it's her parallel story to Curt's adventures in Model Client 1 & 2. She has an erotic adventure with a married couple and explores some more firsts. Three sex scenes (four if you count the opening). It's taken a long time to get this one out but I hope to have it ready as early as the the beginning of next week.

Meantime, if you have perused the existing stories about Curt and Julia, see my signature, which now has them all in sequence.

Use the same name there as here (probably shouldn't but I signed up there years ago mostly to check it out and didn't think at the time I'd be a writer there). Only one story there right now but if I can ever get my mind from thinking about sex (fat chance on that, eh) I might start publishing more there.

I'm in a market for a new car. Compared to my current daily driver from the year 2001, the cars today seem completely high tech.

Extremely. I went from an '06 CRV to the 2017 model earlier this year and it's a very different beast. Android Auto so I can use my phone as a navi and audio system, adaptive cruise and lanekeeping assist so not self-driving but much more intelligent than older vehicles, and so on. Even my '15 Civic, while not in the same league as the CRV (partly because it's one trim level lower), is pretty high tech compared to the '04 it replaced. The one change that continues to blow my mind: Bluetooth audio system. I have made and received phone calls ON MY CAR! To a guy born when telephones had a little dial that you spun to dial a number and a thick wire going into the wall (modular jacks came a bit later), the concept that I can make a phone call by pressing a button on my steering wheel and saying "Call Home" is very s-f.

High Tech things that don't exist that I want? A robot butler/maid/groundskeeper. Preferably a friendly, chatty one like C-3PO. I have to take back the house/yardwork that I handed over to my teenager when he goes off to uni in a month and I'm not looking forward to it.

Mike, seems like you and I are the only two perverts to come out of the closet and admit we crave a tentacle themed contest. Of course, Her Royal Spriteness, has seen fit to include tentacle sex scenes in some of her finer works, so maybe there's hope.

Oh, I'd enter a tentacle comp if one came up. The problem would be coming up with a tentacle story that doesn't break the Lush Commandments in some profound way.

Yup - my first attempt at the "Pure Filth" comp. Got about 5800 words into it, and couldn't tie up my ending with the preceding scene. Agonized over it for four days, then gave up and started over. I feel your pain, I really do; but sometimes, you've got to just admit that it isn't working and try a different tack - a different tense, perhaps.

Or just say fuck it, and open the whiskey. That's always good too.

The whiskey helped. Solution was simple. The main part of the story is in pretty good shape, the latest ending just didn't fit without major rewriting of the rest. So, the obvious best course is say 'bye to the ending and start over from that point. At least then I can retain what I know works. Of course, that puts me back to needing an ending.

It's a bit tropical today so a cuba libre would be in order. Hope your car smashers have fun Tonya. My brother's buddy back in the eighties used to race stock cars at local tracks and got in on the odd demo derby.

Can I just have a whiskey sour in one of those, please? Champagne, like a lot of French things, is overrated in my books.

So, I've now got two endings written. The second needs fine tuning to bring out some character issues and will definitely put this at the 10K limit. However, as mentioned, it adds more sex and makes for a happier ending that leads to where I'm thinking the whole Curt-Julia thing will end.

Read my posts upthread. Have a story sort-of finished but wrestling with the ending, partly because it will play into how I finish the stories I've been writing about Curt and Julia (the couple whose breakup I chronicled in The Bride's Awakening and Wedding Night Blues). Came up with another possible path for them which requires a totally different ending to this one (but gets rid of the melancholy and replaces it with hot lesbian sex, so that's a plus).

Personally, it’s the intellectual component of intimacy that turns me on, and I find it a challenge to connect intellectually with a lot of younger women (<30), even professionals.

This. Those born in the eighties and later have a rather different culture from those of us born in the fifties and sixties. More of one than you'd find, say, between the fifties and the seventies. Things have just changed that much in my lifetime. I'm sure there are under-30s I could engage with other than physically, but I doubt it would be the norm.